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ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.
Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals. (Credit: Image courtesy of Aalto University)
Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others’ emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. Such synchronization of emotional states across individuals may support social interaction: When all group members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies process the environment in a similar fashion.
Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have now found that feeling strong emotions makes different individuals’ brain activity literally synchronous.
The results revealed that especially feeling strong unpleasant emotions synchronized brain’s emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline regions. On the contrary, experiencing highly arousing events synchronized activity in the networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.
“Sharing others’ emotional states provides the observers a somatosensory and neural framework that facilitates understanding others’ intentions and actions and allows to ‘tune in’ or ‘sync’ with them. Such automatic tuning facilitates social interaction and group processes,” says Adjunct Professor Lauri Nummenmaa from the Aalto University, Finland.
“The results have major implications for current neural models of human emotions and group behavior. It also deepens our understanding of mental disorders involving abnormal socioemotional processing,” Nummenmaa says.
Participants’ brain activity was measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they were viewing short pleasant, neutral and unpleasant movies.
Source: Science Daily
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Emotional people can be amusing, until I actually have to deal with them.
I know they don't know I am not exactly like them, how could they, but still, whenever they expect me to show emotions (For example, they ask me a lot about Spain, and the question I hate the most is 'So are you excited?'. No. I'm not, go and die.), I feel like I'm surrounded by blind idiots.
Or when they recommend me some activity, because it's, you know, ~fun~. Or when they talk to me about something ~fun~ they did. I hate this. I don't want to hear about you having fun, because to me, it's boring, and you're just wasting my time. I don't know does this work, how does hearing others having fun & being happy make others happy. Or the opposite, others being sad makes others sad. I don't know, and I don't care, whether you are sad, or happy, or anything else, don't talk to me about these things, it only makes me bored and annoyed.
That's why I don't like having conversations with people. They can't just talk about stuff, they have to add how do these stuff make them feel, and of course, I have to do the same. But the most ridiculous thing is when they expect emotional support from me. Don't do that, just don't. I don't know why people think emotions are so important, or why do they let negative emotions ruin their mood/day/life/etc. It's only chemistry anyway, and if you can't ignore them then you are not better than some stupid animal.
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I'm way too bored & tired (hey, I have to work almost 4! hours everyday) to be active here lately. But I'm still alive. Eventually I'll start posting again.
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If he didn't let you get an abortion? But wait, what if he won't let you kill yourself? Or you think you can kill yourself without his permission, but you can't get an abortion? Makes sense.
I promised myself if I ever get pregnant and my husband didn’t let me get an abortion, I’m going to kill myself.
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